My Weekly #Roundup #33

Goodbye, Mr. Iwata, and thank you!

Security & Privacy

• 4 Lasting Impacts Of The Hacking Team Leaks

• Flash Player Update Patches Two Hacking Team Zero Days

• Hacking Team Promises to Rebuild Controversial Surveillance Software

• Microsoft Patches Hacking Team Windows Kernel Zero Day

• Hacking Team Uses UEFI BIOS Rootkit to Keep RCS 9 Agent in Target Systems

• Who killed Proxyham?

• Another “Hacking Team” zero-day surfaces - this time in IE, not Flash!

• How Hacking Team and FBI planned to Unmask A Tor User

• 4 Use-After-Free Vulnerabilities in Windows

Geekness

• Nintendo of Japan President Satoru Iwata dead at 55

• R.I.P. Satoru Iwata, President and CEO of Nintendo: 1959-2015

• The Fastest Ships in the Universe

• Debunking the 7 biggest myths about hacking

• Meanwhile, on Mars

• Watch Satoru Iwata’s inspiring GDC 2005 talk in full

• Surprising Applications of the Magnus Effect

Programming

• Microsoft Edge and Web Components

• Essential tips to improve the performance of AngularJS

• TWITTER FOUNDER ADMITS ERROR OVER API RATE LIMITS

• Testing JavaScript Modules with Tape

• /etc/init.d/daemon stop

Ukulele & Music

• PSI-S-LEO II Tenor Ukulele - REVIEW

• Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Misirlou

• Ukulele Album Roundup

Running

• Kilian Jornet Wins Hardrock 100, Shatters Course Record

• Scott Jurek breaks Appalachian Trail speed record

• Can Running Cure Depression?